Some fan sites age into documentation projects.
Visit the Prince of Persia Unofficial Website
Jalal Noureddine’s site is one of them.
The homepage organizes material around the original Prince of Persia, Prince of Persia 2, and Prince of Persia 3D, but the real depth appears once you start clicking. There are manuals, maps, version differences, passwords, screenshots, ports, fan patches, translations, mods, magazine scans, technical fixes, and community-made material covering years of releases across multiple platforms.
The site identifies itself as the Prince of Persia Unofficial Website and dates its copyright history from 2002 through 2021.
By 2021 it was still posting new material.
Fandom turned into preservation
A casual fan page usually disappears when the author’s interest moves on.
This one accumulated enough detail that it became useful to anyone trying to understand or run old versions of the games.
The Game Gear section, for example, preserves level passwords and manual scans. Other sections document Game Boy and Sega Master System versions, complete level maps, DOS-era tricks, fan fixes, unofficial sequels, language translations, and obscure differences between ports.
That kind of work is difficult to recreate after the fact because commercial publishers rarely preserve every regional manual, patch, odd port, fan discovery, and obsolete compatibility note in one place.
Fans do.
The site’s old-school structure helps. Information is attached to specific games and versions rather than buried in a timeline. A visitor can still move deliberately from one platform to another and compare what changed.
CacheRat’s 1,967 Ancient Web Domains research list contains many examples of fan enthusiasm quietly becoming historical infrastructure.
Prince of Persia Unofficial Website is a particularly good one because the archive includes not only nostalgia, but the practical details needed to study and preserve software.